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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Mile End 1892
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]
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286 18 JANUARY, 1893.
(b) Nos. 96 and 98, Jamaica Street—
The present owner only having had the property
fourteen days in his possession, and not having
received the notices for the sanitary defects, and
the work being already in hand the summonses
were withdrawn.
(10) That your Sanitary Inspectors reported that since the last meeting, the following works had been performed, viz.:
| Districts. | Total. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. 1. | No. 2. | No. 3. | ||
| Houses, &c., inspected | 147 | 96 | 74 | 317 |
| „ reinspected | 113 | 124 | 176 | 413 |
| Workshops inspected and measured | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| „ re-inspected | 0 | 0 | 31 | 31 |
| Notices served for sanitary amendmerits | 62 | 56 | 66 | 184 |
| Notices served re infectious diseases | 17 | 13 | 25 | 55 |
| Drains tested | 1 | 20 | 7 | 28 |
| „ found defective | 1 | 9 | 1 | 11 |
| „ cleansed and repaired | 0 | 6 | 7 | 13 |
| „ reconstructed | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| „ provided (new surface) | 5 | 6 | 2 | 13 |
| „ properly trapped | 18 | 63 | 114 | 195 |
| Closets (new) provided | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| „ (additional) provided for workshops | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Closets ventilated | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Water-supplies provided to closets | 1 | 15 | 18 | 34 |
| „ for domestic purposes disconnected from those used for flushing closets | 7 | 4 | 0 | 11 |
| Waste-pipes of sinks disconnected from direct communication with drains | 23 | 10 | 18 | 51 |
| Rain-water-pipes ditto ditto | 0 | 4 | 10 | 14 |
| Houses cleansed | 1 | 13 | 9 | 23 |
| Workshops „ | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Yards paved or paving repaired | 8 | 8 | 28 | 34 |
| Ashpits provided, repaired, or covered | 1 | 11 | 43 | 55 |
| Miscellaneous repairs | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Occupation of underground rooms discontinued | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Summonses taken out | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Signed
t. j. smith.
alfred lloyd.
wm. catmur.
alfred druitt.